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Johnson submits petitions in insurgent bid for Oregon governor, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Johnson submits petitions in insurgent bid for Oregon governor, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Johnson submits plenty of signatures for governor’s race, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

The Atlantic Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion. Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic In 1958 the American National Election Study began asking Americans whether they trusted the federal government to do the right thing all or most of the time. By this measure, American trust in government peaked at 77 percent in 1964, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the election of Lyndon B. Johnson. By the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency in 1980, trust had fallen below 30 percent, and while the exact percentage has fluctuated since then, ...

Type of discussion we don't have on the senate floor, the type of listening that takes place with senators we don't have in the modern senate. it was valuable in that sense. i hope each side understands each other better. i hope my republican colleagues understand they have pressed this to the brink. they have used the personal privilege to filibuster in such a systematic way it's unacceptable and deeply disturbing to the american people who want to see us addressing america and we have this petty partisan paralysis and it's unacceptable. >> senator, i want to ask you on another issue pertaini...